SystemC Environment

Exercise:

Perform a behavioral simulation of 8-bit Johnson counter using the SystemC environment.

Write a proper testbench and present the simulation results to the instructor (use GTKWave application).

More information about SystemC can be found at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemC

http://www.accellera.org/downloads/standards/systemc

For viewing the simulation results use the GTKWave waveform viewer available on the desktop (software can be downloaded from: http://gtkwave.sourceforge.net/)

A simple example of a simulation in SystemC can be found here: sysc_example.tgz

This example should be unpacked into any directory, then run make program in this directory (to compile the example files) and run the generated simulator program: ./run_me (to perform the simulation).

The results of the simulation will be written to the wave.vcd file which can be viewed by GTKWave application:

gtkwave wave.vcd

Exercise can be done by modifying the above example.

The following is a GTKwave window when you view the simulation results of the above example: